All I know is it would be nice to be able to enjoy it year-round when the mood hits, instead of having it rammed down our throats until we’re sick of it. What boneheads decided you can only sell pumpkin spice in the fall? Ditto peppermint ice cream.
“Pumpkin pie spice is similar to the British and Commonwealth mixed spice. It is generally a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice.” Wikipedia
Why pumpkins in the fall? Ever see them in the spring? They’re either tiny seeds and unremarkable or leftovers from the previous fall and thus disgusting.
It goes in pumpkin pie, which is traditionally served at Thanksgiving, and then somebody got the bright idea of marketing it as a flavoring for other things seasonally, and voila, a trend was born.
Alfred Brown 8 months ago
Its been called Pumpkin PIE Spice for years and was made up by the people who brought you Pumpkin Pie Filling, and Thanksgiving!
Rhetorical_Question 8 months ago
Clever kid?
sandpiper 8 months ago
Kid nailed Frazz and Frazz nailed the source. Another artificial construct aided by the you ain’t cool if you don’t buy it ad hype. Yeck.
Doug K 8 months ago
Most of these kind of things are at least partly about marketing: How can they (as a person or company) take advantage of this particular thing?
nosirrom 8 months ago
Worse use of pumpkin spice – in beer.
ralphb 8 months ago
All I know is it would be nice to be able to enjoy it year-round when the mood hits, instead of having it rammed down our throats until we’re sick of it. What boneheads decided you can only sell pumpkin spice in the fall? Ditto peppermint ice cream.
rshive 8 months ago
I guess that one never sees a pumpkin in an obvious summer scene.
trainnut1956 8 months ago
I can do without the Pumpkin Spice Preparation H, thank you very much.
Brass Orchid Premium Member 8 months ago
Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Nutmeg actually has hallucinogenic properties. This concoction was featured in an episode of Elementary.
ELEMENTARY: SEASON 3, EPISODE 7 – The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction
poppacapsmokeblower 8 months ago
In our area grocery store the scented pine cones dispel the smell of pumpkin spice.
blah_duh 8 months ago
As along as it has caffeine, people will go for anything that coffee companies will put out.
prrdh 8 months ago
See the Babylon Bee article, “Ships Arrive From The Orient Laden With Pumpkin Spice”.
halvincobbes Premium Member 8 months ago
Whatever happened to apple cinnamon being the scent of fall?
rasputin's horoscope 8 months ago
Start pumpkins plants from seeds in the spring, by mid autumn, you’ll have full-grown, fully ripened pumpkins.
All produce is seasonal.
DM2860 8 months ago
“Pumpkin pie spice is similar to the British and Commonwealth mixed spice. It is generally a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice.” Wikipedia
There is not even any pumpkin in it.
suelou 8 months ago
My husband had pumpkin beer some years ago.. though I don’t know if it was plain pumpkin, or pumpkin spice!
Richard S Russell Premium Member 8 months ago
Why pumpkins in the fall? Ever see them in the spring? They’re either tiny seeds and unremarkable or leftovers from the previous fall and thus disgusting.
calliarcale 8 months ago
It goes in pumpkin pie, which is traditionally served at Thanksgiving, and then somebody got the bright idea of marketing it as a flavoring for other things seasonally, and voila, a trend was born.